Elderly Man Attacks Daughter / Caregiver

NEW YORK (AP) — A man hurled acid in his daughter's face in a gruesome attack that sent her into a street screaming for help as her skin peeled and her clothes disintegrated, police and witnesses said.

As his 49-year-old daughter sat on his couch in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, Jerome Lynch abruptly left the room, returned with a cup of what she thought was water and doused her with it, she later told a cousin, according to the Daily News.

Then the corrosive burning started, and Darlene Lynch ran outside as her clothes disintegrated and her skin fell from her face, witnesses said.

"You could see the smoke coming off her body," Clarissa Shakespeare told the newspaper. "Everyone was just traumatized and scared. Her skin looked like melting wax."

Bystanders poured water on the victim, helped pull away her clothes and covered her with a sheet, witnesses said.

Her 69-year-old father was arrested on an assault charge. Information on his arraignment and lawyer weren't immediately available Sunday.

It is clearly time for this gentleman to live under professional care.  I have taken care of both patients and relatives with dementia, and it never gets better.  For his own safety, and the public, he has to be watched around the clock.

I pray for that poor woman.  I've been burned by a very mild acid, it hurt like hell for a long time.  I cannot imagine what it would be like to be burned by a strong acid that may have taken my eye.  Her suffering must be incredible, and even if she makes it she will forever bear the scars inflicted by her own father.  There's no win there for her, ever.